edmccard

16 ms·

61.
by edmccard 9y ago
It would seem to be balanced out by the opposite scenario: >>Leave yours at the door when you enter a store...if it's not raining anymore when you leave, just leave it there.
62.
by edmccard 9y ago
>a lot packed into that comment. A summary: once upon a time, Grand Central Station had AC at multiple frequencies in addition to 60hz (also it had some DC power). In the 1990s it was rewired so that the AC only used the (American) stand
63.
by edmccard 9y ago
>But the software has just exploded by orders of magnitude. Millions of lines of code instead of thousands. Maybe its only one order of magnitude -- if I remember correctly, there were about 300,000 lines of code running on the main proc
64.
by edmccard 9y ago
>you don't seem to understand what makes HN a cool place to hang out ... the stupid question does a lot more harm than the inartful calling-out I guess I have a different perspective on HN than you do; because I've never notice
65.
by edmccard 9y ago
The article also mentions non-disparagement agreements -- maybe it's including them under NDAs?
66.
by edmccard 9y ago
You're right. Asking if you could imagine such a person could be construed as implying that I'm only reacting to imaginary offenses like some sort of snowflake (after all, the word "imagine" was right there in my comme
67.
by edmccard 9y ago
>I certainly would not consider it a personal attack. Fair enough. I suppose there's a certain type of person you've never had to interact with; but can you imagine the existence of such a person who, when they said "many
68.
by edmccard 9y ago
>That "layer of indirection" changes it from a personal attack to a statement of fact. So if instead of calling you an ass, 'mixmastamyk has said to you "many people would think you're acting like an ass for comm
69.
by edmccard 9y ago
>it always feels like the other person started it In this case, the other person said "Many people will just quietly write you off as a hopeless dweeb if you expose your laziness in this way." Is that not a personal attack beca
70.
by edmccard 9y ago
>maybe I'm just remembering wrong then. Nope; many CD players, like the first one I got in 1986, had only a two-digit led display for the track number -- there was no time display at all. EDIT: It was a Fisher Studio Standard that l
71.
by edmccard 9y ago
Theres a mu.run on (at least) one of the disks archived at the Computer History Musuem, listed at http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/_cd8_/alto/.index.html http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/_c
72.
by edmccard 9y ago
XKCD 221 came out February 9th, 2007[1], so either Randall new about the bug before details were announced in May 2008, or it's just a joke about randomness not tied to any particular reference. [1] Go to https://xkcd.com&#x
73.
by edmccard 9y ago
>The essence of programming is being capable of constantly walking up and down the abstraction ladder ... it's good to be able to step down and verify what's going on. Good, yes, desirable, often, but I wouldn't call it &q
74.
by edmccard 9y ago
>the interface made the AST very clickable, with minimal cursor movement. Every so often the concept of visual programming comes up, where people wish that instead of editing text they could somehow directly manipulate an AST. Wouldn&#x2
75.
by edmccard 9y ago
>this hides from me what's being presented to the compiler Isn't that the whole point of abstractions? Like, when you write a function call, you see "foo()" but the compiler sees all the individual instructions in the
76.
by edmccard 9y ago
>...put together a processor from TTL chips. The barrier to entry was very low. It was mostly because of the clock speeds, wasn't it? I seem to remember once hearing that below 20 Mhz you could play "TTL Lego" but above th
77.
by edmccard 9y ago
> it signifies that you have spent enough time programming in a wide variety of platforms and with enough other peers to run in to the issue and understand that it exists Or maybe it signifies youthful inexperience? Of the programmers th
78.
by edmccard 9y ago
>The users were asking the maintainer to re-publish a non-broken tarball. Yes, with such helpful suggestions as changing to a fresh directory because the original directory was "corrupt". Except that wouldn't have fixed it
79.
by edmccard 9y ago
>...dark color schemes? I find that it makes text significantly harder to read. Same here. Something about high-contrast schemes irritates my eyes; and I have trouble reading low-contrast text on dark backgrounds, so I've been using
80.
by edmccard 9y ago
Also from the blog post: Those who prefer to bookmark elsewhere will be able to export their data once I fix the export link, which was disabled some months ago for peformance reasons.
81.
by edmccard 9y ago
>They have right to choose to limit their standard of living, as you have done, and move to an urban core and be completely dependent on transit for transportation. As opposed to being completely dependent on public roads for transportat
82.
by edmccard 9y ago
>What actually replaces the suit, watch and shiny shoes is p speech, body language (or a google search revealing your prestigous keynote speech) that one is a member of a particular group. I wouldn't say "replaces"; the sp
83.
by edmccard 9y ago
Here's one from 'kchoudhu late last month[1]. Alas, no. The 2005 Grand Challenge was divided into two parts: the national qualification event, where you went around an obstacle course on a closed raceway in an effort to qualify
84.
by edmccard 9y ago
>it was well understood that majoring in Underwater Basket Weaving was not a great idea from a financial point of view It's still understood. It's just that, it's not a very useful piece of information, since _all_ degrees
85.
by edmccard 9y ago
>How "old" is sufficient? Forever? When the car I still drive was as old as WinXP is now, it was part of a 3.6 million vehicle recall for the cruise-control shutoff switch. The fix involved splicing in some kind of bypass in th
86.
by edmccard 9y ago
>Complicated etiologies for broken systems... ...are how the state-of-the-art is advanced in other industries? Imagine if the FAA's response to an air disaster was, "Never mind root causes, you just should've bought a newe
87.
by edmccard 9y ago
>Still using them at this point is gross negligence I'd guess that most hospitals don't do in-house development for the software they use. They paid someone else for it, probably at "enterprise" rates; it's hard
88.
by edmccard 9y ago
>...orchestrated a global attack on this scale? Was it "orchestrated", or did the worm just spread randomly and opportunistically?
89.
by edmccard 9y ago
Yep, except you'd write it extern(C) { void foo(); } https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html
90.
by edmccard 9y ago
>I'm curious what caused the cost of the new electronic system to nearly double Nitpick: the article mentions that the cost estimates "had ballooned by nearly 50%", which is not the same as doubling (which would have invol

More ›